Smash Comics #18

In "The Midget Train Robbers," a 1941 Smash Comics classic, the inventive George Brenner crafts a high-stakes showdown between the cunning scientist von Thorp and the resourceful robot Hazzard. When von Thorp escapes prison and hijacks his own creation with a new control device, Hazzard must outwit his creator in a desperate game of survival—hiding inside the robot, evading capture, and enduring a flooded chamber with nothing but a pipe to breathe. The story, written, drawn, and inked by Brenner, features a striking cover by Gill Fox, capturing the tension and scale of the conflict in a single, dynamic image.